AT A GLANCE: The Yankees will play their final regular season game tonight at Tampa Bay…are concluding the season by playing 33 games over the final 32 days of the season from 8/28-9/28, playing on 30 of those days (have gone 19-13 thus far).

Are looking to avoid getting swept in a series of more than one game for just the third time in 2011 (also 5/13-15 and 6/7-9 vs. Boston), and just the second time ever by Tampa Bay (also 9/26-28/00 at Tropicana Field)…have not been swept in a multi-game series on the road since 9/10-12/10 at Texas.

THREE AND OUT: The Yankees are the only Major League team that has not lost more than three straight road games this season.

WRAPPING IT UP: The Yankees went 6-4 in the season’s final game over the last 10 years (2001-10), losing four of the last six such contests…have not ended a season on a losing streak of at least four games since 2000 (lost final seven contests).

LEAN LEFT: The Yankees are 35-16 (.686) vs. left-handed starters this season…have won seven of their last 10 and 21 of their last 29 games against lefty starters…are batting .282 (453-for-1,609) vs. LHP this season, fractionally the second-highest in the Majors behind Texas…have hit a Major League-most 67HR off LHP.

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Biggest choke of the year. Hard to believe up 7-0 inthe 8th the Yankees could lose the game whoever they had on the field. It was shocking. They handed the wild card to the Rays. I think the Rays have it to go all the way and we might wish that we hadn’t let them sweep this series. Poor managing by Joe tonight I thought. Used his whole bull pen in the game and as the announcer said got “cute” in having AJ pitch one inning and using all his pitchers so he had nothing left but Proctor at the end. Hopefully this series won’t carry into the playoffs.

You should hear these Rays announcers…you might think the Yanks had their A players in right now, nice comeback and they may even win it, but Girardi really don’t care even left Ayala in and took every starter out but Cano…Not once in this series have the Rays announcers said anything about the Yanks resting their starters…They are comical…Got to give the Rays credit for fighting back but the announcers are really poor…

believe it or not my best friend for the limited baseball he actually knows was a Red Sox fan (although i doubt that’s still the case now – his football allegience is Man United, who notoriously hate Liverpool, John Henry’s plaything) – but i can’t bring myself to root for Boston! Problem is they’ve dug a hole for themselves and well, it’s just went a few inches deeper thanks to JJ Hardy!

I’m on the Boston game tonight and honestly there’s not anyone in the Boston dugout who don’t look as if they’re feeling the pressure – they’ve just went 1-0 up through Pedroia’s single. It’s rare you’ll find me (outside Yankee games) want Lester to get bashed up but i’d rather see Tampa Bay go into October than Boston!

Betances looked good that first inning, I like watching these young kids pitch…I was watching his secondary pitches, a few nice change ups and 2 strike outs on curves…worked out of trouble…I like that also, so far so good..we will see….control is what we are looking for and getting those jitters out of the way..

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